Example sentences of "[conj] see [noun] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Or spend the day aboard an Onedin Line style ship on our Cruise , or see Puerto Rico by night .
2 Of course I did n't go and see Father Courtney without thinking hard about our relationship .
3 We 'll go out and see Auntie Bettie before then .
4 ‘ Daddy apparently forgot to go and see Mr Simms in Woodborough General . ’
5 She thought she would also hint to Miss Potts that Alicia and Daryl were at the bottom of things , but she did n't get very far with this , she had to go and see Miss Potts about some returned homework .
6 Kepler Wessels , a veteran of 24 Tests for Australia , led a team of debutantes into the field after winning the toss , and saw West Indies off to a flyer with Haynes and Phil Simmons , still not convincing in the longer fame , punching holes in the off side whenever Donald and Pringle overpitched. business as usual , we thought — but we were wrong .
7 I turned and saw Dorian Gray for the first time .
8 She heard her name called and saw Alan Markby in his green weatherproof on the far side of the square beckoning to her .
9 Pérez de Cuéllar announced on Jan. 9 after the failure of the Baker-Aziz meeting that he would visit Baghdad ; he arrived on Jan. 12 and saw Saddam Hussein for several hours the following day .
10 They were persons who had been brain-washed by years of experience of disengaging from colonies and saw Northern Ireland as another external colony from which Great Britain was destined to disengage in order to hand it back to the natives whom they assumed were the republican Irish of the island as a whole .
11 On my last afternoon at home , surrounded by grey shirts and socks , I looked from the window and saw Bobby Bowen in his best suit with the extra wide trousers walking quickly down the hill , whistling beautifully as he always did , with lots of grace notes .
12 When she got back to England , and saw Guy Sterne in the cold , rain-soaked light of an English summer day , stability and common sense and some healthy , protective cynicism would undoubtedly reassert themselves without any effort on her part whatsoever .
13 Her dearest wish was to live another couple of years and see Neil Kinnock as prime minister .
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